Life As Ruler:Nexus Island. Kingdom Simulator.450,000-Words! (Full Demo_11 Feb 2025)

[LibtechMk]

After three months on a voyage, you have finally found an island to call home. Good for you and your tribe, the inhabitants of the island are willing to share it with you. Embark on this new journey as you vie to fulfill their requests and become part of the Nexus.

Life As A Ruler: Nexus Island is for now a little more than 450,000-word interactive medieval low-fantasy sci-fi novel.

You are yet to become a monarch, but even so, you have a heavy burden on your shoulder. It’s up to you, to paint your kingdom to the image of your liking. With the provided paint of course.

• Play as a King or Queen.
• Take counsel from various people.
• Decide how your kingdom operates.
• Decide where you will focus on most by your choices.
• Build, demolish, conquer, defend, enlist and assign your forces and artisans.
• Choose what to claim, whether it is gem lodes, territories, villages, towns or cities. Your commands are absolute.
• Manage your relations with your subjects, allies and enemies.
• How will you put up with your twin brother/sister?
• With seven or more romantic options, will you settle for one or none at all.
• There is a very secretive priest on the island who likes to think you are a Dragonborn. Are dragons real?
• Will you trust Legends and seek the truth? If there is ever one.
• Little do you know, the world you have been plunged into is governed by future technology. Will you unravel all the secrets of the island?
• All things considered, the island has an Ultimate Secret. One that will grant the one who comes to know it first the power of a God.

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Accomplished Ideas from other Forumers.

1. An Objective Tracker - @Valda_Reehux
   Now you can keep track of your main tasks through the stats screen.
   Ongoing constructions Tracker.
   You can now also keep track of ongoing contructions.
2. Saves protector.-@kb12
   You don’t have to worry about your saves getting messed up every major update. Option The Guardian Protocol will see to that. All you have to do is follow instructions.
3. I’m looking forward to have more than 1 item in this list. So feel free to drop in any suggestions.

Features Available in detail

1. Assigning lands and workers to certain productions.
2. Training different skills , millitary and technical.
3. Forging different materials and making some.
4. Completing the tasks leading to your coronation.
5. Building facilities that gives you access to the above items.
6. Viewing which of your 4 territories has which resources.
7. Gem lodes. Lodes of rare minerals that spawn in certain territories
8. GOD Mode.

Here are some things you can’t do yet, they will be unlocked once you are Coronated.
Key:
These are already in the WIP. BLOW
These are going to be in the WIP. VOW

1. Assigning your defense system and invasion force. BLOW
2. Expanding your territories

• Through invasion or taking unoccupied areas. BLOW
• Through diplomacy. VOW
• There are 36 territories that can be occupied on the Island.

3. Viewing which territories has which resources in all territories. BLOW
4. Using different means of transport to other Kingdoms.Travelling.VOW
5. More advanced facilities.VOW
6. Building walls, gates and more.VOW
7. Annexing peasants towns.VOW
8. I can use your suggestion.!And you can do this now if you feel like it🙂.

Full Demo: COGdemos

Link no longer working.Moody

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[jay-walker]

@LibtechMk

About grammar would you give an example from the demo that needs correcting.

Well, I didn’t get far but:

…ind you,you are an al…,OK,ok.
“What lies ahead,is an exprience of a lifetime,” so one might say.What will be your opinion?Don’t tell me now I will take your feedback later your MAJESTY!, and so the honors begin.Now let me guide you through this world you have come to know as your own.

Here’s how this looks to me, with Grammarly.

[LibtechMk]

Ok, I have been trying to download grammarly but my network speed is not fast enough.
So the underlined words must be where my grammar mistakes are right?

[jay-walker]

Most of the mistakes seem to be missing spaces. I hope your network speed improves This will take only a couple of minutes to fix with Grammarly.

[Pleuratus]

English is not my first language either. But:

It’s not only a matter of fixing grammar to be honest. There is a serious need for rewriting of several paragraphs throughout the game. From the moment I started playing the prologue, the very first paragraph was confusing to me:

Clouds blurrs your vision as you are moved from one to another at a soothing speed.As if they have a mind of their own your hands are willed to your face and you can’t see their colour,just outlines showing they are hands.Part of you already knows what this is and some part of it does not have any clue on what’s going on.

What are you trying to convey?

The game concept is good but I’d consult with someone who is better at English to fix the problems with the story.

[LibtechMk]

Welcome to the forum @Pleuratus,
The first part of the prologue focuses on the MC making sense of theirself in the clouds or rather some kind of waking up.They are human so there is no way they can be flying which coveys one thing that they are dreaming
But this dream is unique that it is informing the player about what they need to know.

If you would and anyone else be so kind to finish the prologue you will get the full sense of it.

[LibtechMk]

@Pleuratus thanks coz that’s a great idea.

So if anyone reads this and be interested in helping a fellowman I did appreciate it.

[Pleuratus]

The paragraph was just an example of how the story confused me reading it. I can understand the gist of it vaguely. Of the story too. Yet it’s a problem if the reader has to reread it several times in order to understand it clearly.

[LibtechMk]

Well I think my mistake occurred when I was thinking of how to write my prologue.So I envisioned myself in the clouds soaring like some flying specimen.
I wanted my story to start that way.Kinda like what they do in movies and tv shows.

I did not think it will be hard to understand.

But to spoil you ,the player is sleeping and this dream they are having will help in customizing their profile.Also making the player learn about some things that happened before their time.

[11110]

The game stopped with the message “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘line’)”.

[11110]

[LibtechMk]

Which option did you select?
All the options work fine though.

[Valda_Reehux]

congrats on your WIP, not many can pull off this genre
as others have stated, there are some things that need your immediate attention

my suggestion: add an “Objective Tracker”

I believe most of us would get lost or forget what the current objectives / goals are, a tracker will serves as a reminder that players can check from time to time

anyway, good luck

[LibtechMk]

thank you @Valda_Reehux for your feedback.

Add an Objective Tracker ,you mean like in the stats where you get to see the tasks you need to fulfill and ones you already have finished.

If so I have to admit I did not think of that.It is a good idea,thanks.

A question of interest if I may friend?
Did you reach a part of the game where you speak to your advisors.

[Kelly_Seastar]

“You are anal”

[LibtechMk]

It was only a matter of time.But it finishes in many ways.
How about an alien?
not saying that how it’s finished just suggesting

[Empress_Nightmare]

Why aren’t save/load working? I thought moody.ink has them in built.

[LibtechMk]

Mine are working ,but there is this way it is not
It is working when I play the game using the playtest option.
It is not working when I use the link in the introduction.

I don’t know what’s going on.
But there is this warning at the top of my browser it says

Warning: Undefined array key "HTTPS" in /hid/gamehead.php on line 14

[Empress_Nightmare]

@LibtechMk

I don’t know what’s going on.

See this?

[LibtechMk]

yes I saw it